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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. What did the mother of the magician do to the family library?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Burned it when she was delirious and thought books were evil.
(c) Sold it all off.
(d) Donated the library to the London museum.

3. How were street folk different from patterers?
(a) Patterers used entertainment to sell a product and street folk entertain for tips.
(b) Street folk would try to sell wares along with their entertaining.
(c) Patterers never sold wares.
(d) They were exactly the same; just a different term.

4. How many were employed as domestic servants?
(a) 12,000.
(b) About 1 million.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(b) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Job search assistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had recently become illegal in London?

2. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?

3. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?

4. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

5. Who were most of the street folk Mayhew discussed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of education did many of the street folk have, what types of families did many of them come from and how did many of them start out?

2. Who did Tuckniss call a prostitute?

3. Who did Halliday say were swindlers?

4. What did the people Mayhew called "Punch" do?

5. How did cab drivers obtain their cabs, how many hours did they work, and what did they sometimes do to mitigate their long hours?

6. What did bus drivers own, what did they do and what other work had many of them done? How often did they work and what did their work prevent?

7. What was the photographer's business like according to Mayhew?

8. What was a casual ward?

9. What does Mayhew say someone who is unable to work must do and how does he feel about those able to work who won't?

10. Why did the author say "Dolly shops" were suspect?

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